Such a market failure triggered famine in Ethiopia in 2003, when two successive seasons of record harvests led to an 80% drop in prices paid to farmers and a steep cut in planting the next year.

• 这种市场失灵引发了2003年埃塞俄比亚的饥荒，连续两季的创纪录大丰收导致粮食收购价格下跌80%25，促使农民在次年大规模削减了种植量。